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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational endeavours. Students want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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